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Publishing in journals

Doctoral Summer School 2015

Dr. Andreas Zins, MODUL University Vienna

Editor-in-Chief, IJCTHR

Take a decision where to publish

• Know the journal

• Know the reputation of the journal

• Know the (resource) editor

• Know the positioning of the journal

• Anticipate the characteristics of the audience

• Know the criteria for getting published

• Download sample articles

• Study the author guidelines carefully

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Know your journals

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• ATR• TM• JTR• JTTM• IJCTHR

• Top Tier• Middle Tier• Lower Tier

• Tourism / Hospitality / Events

Journal portfolio Elsevier

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Annals of Tourism ResearchInternational Journal of Hospitality ManagementJournal of Air Transport ManagementJournal of Destination Marketing & ManagementJournal of Hospitality and Tourism ManagementJournal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education - JoHLSTEJournal of Outdoor Recreation and TourismSport Management ReviewTourism ManagementTourism Management Perspectives

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Know the journal / editor / positioning

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Audience – reachATR: 1.2 mio downloads 2013

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Author origin: ATR

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Journal portfolio Emerald

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Journal portfolio Sage

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Cornell Hospitality Quarterly International Review for the Sociology of Sport Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research Journal of Sport and Social Issues Journal of Sports Economics Journal of Travel Research Tourist Studies

Journal portfolio of Taylor & Francis

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[extract] Anatolia Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research Current Issues in Tourism International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration Journal of Ecotourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Journal of Hospitality, Marketing and Management Journal of Sustainable Tourism Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Tourism Geographies Visitor Studies

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Journal portfolio of Cognizant

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Journal Metrics

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Journal metrics

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• SJR Rank: It is a measure of journal’s impact, influence or prestige. It expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the journal in the three previous years. Uses similar algorithms like Google page rank.

• Impact factor: measures the average number ofcitations received in a particular year by paperspublished in the journal during the two precedingyears

• H-Index: journal‘s number of articles (h) that havereceived at least h citations over the whole period

Examples

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• ATR• SJR: 2.262• Impact Factor: 2.685• 5-year IF: 3.467• H-Index: 95

• TM• SJR: 2.111• Impact Factor: 2.554• 5-year IF: 3.762• H-Index: 96

• JTR• SJR: 2.823• Impact Factor: 2.442• 5-year IF: 3.194• H-Index: 69

• JBR• SJR: 1.183• Impact Factor: 1.480• 5-year IF: 2.324• H-Index: 64

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Self-Citation: JTR

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JBR Symmetric Measures

JBR Journal Metrics

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.684

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.183

Impact Factor: 1.480

5-Year Impact Factor: 2.324

Symmetric measures are the dominant logic but highly misleading

E.g., average number of holiday vacation flights annually by Americans equals 1.0, yet…

65% of Americans annually do not do holiday travel by air

Use asymmetric metrics as well! See next page.

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JBR is #1 in Google h5 Impact among the Top 20 Journals in Marketing

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JBR 7th in impact among Top 20 Journals in Strategic Management

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Tourism, Hospitality Journals

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Australian Business Deans‘ Council List 2013

About 60 tourism journals: A*: 4, A: 11, B: 24, C: 21

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Annals of Tourism Research

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Journal of Travel Research

Tourism Management

Current Issues in Tourism

Event Management: an international journal

International Journal of Tourism Research

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Tourism Analysis

Tourism Economics

Tourism Geographies

Tourism Recreation Research

Visitor Studies: theory, research, and practice

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Acceptance rates

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• ATR:

• TM, JTR: about 7 – 10%• JBR: 10%• IJCTHR: 35%

Editorial (EES/EM) Articles received and processed by the Editorial Office (previous year's values in brackets for comparison).

Subm. Final disposition Month Articles Articles Articles Processing times (in weeks) Results w/o

review Subm. to 1st decn.

Auth. rev. time

Sub. to fin. disp.

Withdrawn Accepted Rejected Rejec. rate

Total 544 (439)

488 (449)

236 (187)

8.1 (8.5)

8.9 (11.1)

14.1 (16.3)

8 (7)

88 (99)

392 (343)

0.82 (0.78)

Acceptance rates: ATR

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Time to publish research failures• Karl Popper: “Refutations have often been regarded as establishing the failure of a scientist, or at least of his theory. It should be stressed that this is an inductivist error. Every refutation should be regarded as a great success. … Even if a new theory … should meet an early death, it should not be forgotten; rather its beauty should be remembered, and history should record our gratitude to it.”• Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity; 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics

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International Collaboration: JTR

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Cited vs. uncited Documents: JTR

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Cited vs. uncited Documents: CQ

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Cited vs. uncited Documents: ATR

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Cited vs. uncited Documents: JBR

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The quality criteria: ATR

Scope

Significance

Originality

Rigour

Threshold

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Scope

Submissions must fall with the aims and scope of the journal. Annals of Tourism Research is a social sciences journal focusing on academic perspectives on tourism. Submissions must be able to clearly articulate how they satisfy both the social science and tourism test. This will normally be by reference to an underpinning by one or more social science disciplines and/or methods and a focus on a social aspect of tourism.

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Significance

Significance will be understood in terms of the development of the intellectual agenda of the field and may be theoretical, methodological and/or substantive. Due weight will be given to potential as well as actual significance, especially where the output is very recent.

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Originality

Originality will be understood in terms of the innovative character of the research output. Research outputs that demonstrate originality may: engage with new and/or complex problems; develop innovative research methods, methodologies and analytical techniques; provide new empirical material; and/or advance theory or the analysis of doctrine, policy or practice.

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Rigour

Rigour will be understood in terms of the intellectual precision, robustness and appropriateness of the concepts, analyses, theories and methodologies deployed within a research output. Account will be taken of such qualities as the integrity, coherence and consistency of arguments and analysis, such as the due consideration of ethical issues.

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Thresholds Of publishable standard: Demonstrates a level of significance rigour and originality that meets international standards of excellence. Enhances theory, knowledge, policy or practice of the social science of tourism and is likely to become an important point of reference in tourism research. Elegantly written with clarity and insight. Innovative.

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SOME MORE CAVEATS BEFORESUBMITTING A PAPER

Arch. G. Woodside

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1. Cover Letter

Write a cover letter! 1 in 10 authors do not include a cover letter; a big mistake. Cover letter is an opportunity to convince editor that your paper is worthy of reviewing.

Write to editor by her/his name and not “Dear Editor”. Personalize your letter.

Cover two topics in your cover letter. First, tell what is unique and valuable in the study that your paper reports. Only 2 in 10 authors take this step!

Second, tell how your paper is relevant to the journal that you are submitting your paper for review; provide evidence of relevancy! Only 1 in 10 authors take this step.

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Example cover (bad) letter

To Arch G. Woodside:

We submitted you the manuscript “Consequences of Program Engagement in Online Loyalty Programs” in order to be considered to its publication in the journal “Journal of Business Research”. The authors of the paper are: XXX, a doctoral student of the School of Business and Economics of Valladolid (Spain) ; YYY, an associate professor of the School of Business and Economics of Valladolid (Spain); and ZZZ, an associate professor of the School of Business and Economics of Valladolid (Spain). We hope it was of interest to you.

Thank you in advance. We look forward to hearing from you.

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2. Write in Active Voice Everywhere except the Method Section

BEFORE: “The paper used a dynamic research design to probe the relationship between boards, strategy and performance.”

AFTER: “This study probes relationships among board of directors’ characteristics, firm strategy, and firm performance.”

[“between” refers to two entitites]

[“The paper used…” is passive and implies old-hat, nothing new.]

“dynamic research design” conveys no meaning

Use a second comma in a string of three objects

Adopt a viewpoint that you need to revise all sentences in your paper twice before submitting the paper!

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3. Ask Two Colleagues to Read Your Paper and Give You Comments before You Submit the Paper

Only 1 in 20 papers includes a thank you note that mentions specific names and affiliations of colleagues who have read and given comments on the paper before the paper’s submission. Big mistake!

A reading by a colleague always results in a paper’s

improvement in content and style. Always! Do not be in a hurry to submit. Take this step!

Editors and reviewers go nuts over misspellings, missing key references, and incomplete explanations in data analysis.

Editors love to read thank-you-note on bottom of cover page.

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4. Your Title Should Indicate Your Contribution to Theory

Most titles of submissions to scholarly journals are bad.

Examples of bad titles An Investigation into the Factors Affecting Customers' Perception in B2C

"Business-to-Customer" E-commerce Shopping

Perceptions of firm performance in M&A context

Bring “theory” into your thinking and early drafts of your paper

Good titles (note absence of “Turkey”, “China”, “Brazil”, and the “USA”): How consumers consume: a typology of consumption practices

Why do brands cause trouble: A dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding

How brands become icons

Updating Heider’s balance theory: A Jewish couple buys a German car

How do men grab the phallus? Gender tourism in everyday consumption

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Example of using two titles (the first provocative) by two high-impact scholars

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5. Embrace the new logic that within the same data set, X relates to Y positively, negatively, and not all:contrarian case analysis supports this principle

Symmetric-based theory Core hypothesis: low X

associates with low Y; high X associates with high Y; test using statistics

Focus on fit validity only with no holdout sample testing

Testing for net effects—deconstruction

Now the dominant logic

Asymmetric-based theory Core hypothesis: low X

associates with low and high Y; high X associates with low and high Y—which depends on recipes

Focus on predictive validity testing with holdout samples

Testing for recipe usefulness in predicting high outcome score

Relatively new logic

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6. Insure your paper fulfills the style requirements of thejournal that you are submitting the paper for review

The style in one paper in five JBR submissions does not match the style requirements of the JBR

Examples:

The JBR does not use structured abstracts

The JBR does not accept footnotes or end notes in papers

Figures and tables should appear after the reference pages (not true for JCR)

Use full abstracts: not teasers

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7. Cover details in your abstract

Abstract should have lots of details

Details: issue (motivation), theory (problem), method (solution), key finding, implication to theory/practice

Good abstract:

This study advances a configural asymmetric theory of the complex antecedents to hospitality employee happiness-at-work and managers’ assessments of employees’ quality of work-performance.

The study identifies antecedent paths involving high-versus-low happy employees associating with high-versus-low managers’ assessments of these employees’ performances. The study merges data from surveys of employees (n=247) and surveys completed by their managers (n=43) and by using qualitative comparative analysis via the software program, fsQCA.com. 44

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The study analyzes data from Janfusan Fancyworld, the largest (in revenues and number of employees) tourism business group in Taiwan; Janfusan Fancyworld includes tourist hotels, amusement parks, restaurants and additional firms in related service sectors.

The findings support the four tenets of configural analysis and theory construction:

recognize equifinality of different solutions for the same outcome;

test for asymmetric solutions;

test for causal asymmetric outcomes for very high versus very low happiness and work performance;

and embrace complexity.

The study provides useful case-level algorithms involving employees’ demographic characteristics and their assessments of work facet-specifics which are useful for explaining very high happiness-at-work and high quality-of-work performance (as assessed by managers)—as well as algorithms explaining very low happiness and very low quality-of-work performance.

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8. Include a great visual (figure) in your paper:display below is Tufte and Napoleon’s army going

to and returning from Moscow

Available free: lots of pages of VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION, E. Tufte at:

http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/AcademicAffairs/ArtsSciences/geography/foote/maps/assign/reading/TufteCoversheet.pdf

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9. Try to use research genres other than surveyswith mostly 5, 6, or 7 point scales

Way too many early career authors/papers rely on 5 to 7 point scaled question responses

Substantial evidence supports the perspectives that (1) most thinking occurs unconsciously and (2) self-reports differ from reality of actual system 1 beliefs… and feelings … and accuracy substantially (see Nesbit and Wilson’s (1977) classic study—”Telling more than we can know” and Feldman and Lynch’s (1988) “self-generated validity”

Consider using additional genres such as historical records, field experiments, naturally generated self reports, the long interview method (in situ interviews), “structured analogies” (role-playing)—see J Scott Armstrong for structured analogies

Take two hours and read a few pages in Case Study Research: Theory, Methods and Practice—455 pages, covers 14 research genres and you can have a copy for free 47

Example of an unusual research genre (role-playing)

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURE, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH

Andreas H. Zins

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Aims and Scope. IJCTHR

• The JCTHR focuses on building bridges in theory, research, and practice across the inter-related fields of culture, tourism and hospitality.• advance theory and research on the roles of culture, tourism, and hospitality in the lives of individuals, households, and organizations.• seeks to nurture interdisciplinary multicultural work among sociological, psychological, geographical, consumer, leisure, marketing, travel and tourism, hospitality, and sport and entertainment researchers.

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Coverage – Main themes

Tourist culture and behaviour

Marketing practices in tourism and hospitality, and

how this relates to cultures

Consumer behaviour and trends in tourism and

hospitality

Destination culture and destination marketing

International tourism and hospitality51

Foundation

Established: 2007; 2015 = Vol. 9

Editor-in-Chief: Arch Woodside,

Andreas H. Zins (since 2012)

Associate Editors: Ken Hyde (AUT), Scott McCabe (Univ. of

Nottingham)

70 members of the EAB: 17 countries, 5 continents

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Structure

Linked to: Symposium on Consumer Psychology of Tourism,

Hospitality and Leisure (started: 1998)

and the International Academy of Culture, Tourism and

Hospitality Research

Submission and review:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcthr

Double-blind review principle: minimum of 2 reviews

Review turnaround: 32 (42) days

Submission to first decision: 65 (90) days

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Special Issues (1)

Studying Hospitality beyond the Envelope

Tourism and Hospitality Training

Southern Culture and Hospitality

Emerging Tourism in Taiwan

Consumer Behavior and Tourism

Tourism/hospital training

Creative methods/inquiry arts marketing54

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Special Issues (2)

Island tourism/Culture and heritage

Creative Cities and Cultural Spaces

Vacation decision making

Destinatin branding and marketing

Multi-media research and popular culture

International tourist behavior

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Special Issues (3)

Tourism and shopping behavior research

The legacy of Josef Mazanec

Perspectives on festival and events research

New perspectives on dark tourism

Cultural issues in the Arab and Muslim world

Advancing Research on the Tourist Gaze:

Contributions honoring John Urry56

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RecognitionAbstracted and indexed SCOPUS, ABI Inform, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search

Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Alumni Edition, Business Source Complete, Business Source Corporate Plus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Marketing, C.I.R.E.T, Electronic Collections Online, EBSCO Hospitality & Tourism Complete, Hospitality & Tourism Index™, Hospitality & Tourism Complete™, Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts

Ranking

Too young for impact factor

B ranked by the Australian Business Deans‘ Council

SSCI/SCI list: in review

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Awards for ExcellenceOutstanding paper 2014 Volume 8 number 1

"This is a piece of coral received from captain Bob": meanings and functions of tourist souvenirs, Alain Decrop, Julie Masset

Highly commended Volume 8 number 3

Understanding tourists, Defang Zhao, Ingrid Y. Lin

Volume 8 number 3Hospitality processes through the lens of teleological actions, Carmen

Padin, Goran Svensson

Volume 8 number 2Examining a consumption values theory approach of young tourists

toward destination choice intentions, Ian Phau, Vanessa Quintal, Tekle Shanka

Outstanding reviewers

Sameer Hosany, Antónia Correia58

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Useful resources

• Derntl, M., Kravcik, M., Klamma, R. (2013). Basics of paperwriting and publishing in TEL, http://www.slideshare.net/mikederntl/basics-of-paper-writing-and-publishing-in-tel-part-1

• SJR Journal rankings, http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

• Woodside, A.G. (2015). Iconic studies relevant for researchin marketing an the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science: Bridging Asia and the World, 25(3), 259-278.

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